Installing Visual Studio Tools for Tizen

You need the following components on top of Visual Studio to make Visual Studio Tools for Tizen work:

VSIX

Visual Studio extension for Tizen packaging

Tizen Baseline SDK

The SDK is shared with the Tizen Studio, and it supports tools (such as Certificate Manager, Device Manager, Emulator, SDB, and on-demand rpm) for developing Tizen .NET applications.

Prerequisites

To work with Visual Studio Tools for Tizen, your computer must have:

At least 1.5 GB of available disk space

Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio Tools for Tizen works with all Visual Studio variations, including Community. Installing or re-installing Visual Studio with .NET desktop development and .NET Core cross-platform development toolsets is recommended.

Java Development Kit (JDK) 8

JDK 8 is needed to use the Tizen Baseline SDK. OpenJDK is not supported.

Download the JDK 8 from the official Oracle Web site. Select the appropriate platform for your hardware architecture and Windows® version. Run the downloaded executable file and follow the displayed instructions.

JDK 9 will be supported soon.

Emulator Requirements

The Tizen emulator for Visual Studio has the same requirements as the emulator in the Tizen Studio. To check the detailed hardware and software requirements for the Tizen emulator, see Emulator Requirements.

Intel® Hardware Acceleration Execution Manager (Intel® HAXM) speeds up the Tizen emulation on Intel-VT-enabled systems. The Intel® HAXM installation is started automatically as part of the Visual Studio Tools for Tizen installation. For more information, see Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager.

Make sure Hyper-V is disabled (in Windows® 10 or higher):

In the Start menu, select Programs and Features.

Select Turn Windows features on or off.

Disable Hyper-V and click OK.

Reboot the computer.

Visual Studio Tools for Tizen Installation

To use the Tizen SDK tools, you must install the Visual Studio Tools for Tizen extension and the baseline SDK.

To check whether Tizen Project properties have been copied correctly, make sure that the Tizen.NET.ProjectType.props and Tizen.NET.ProjectType.targets files are located in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\Tizen\VisualStudio folder.